Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-03-31
JOB MOSES Millions:
STORY OF T4E DiscovERY or THE
bRGBFORr olE FIELDS.

tI"w < Eochc.tcr PIT Wan Found
Financial Suc::Esss. Flushing the Drill
in III. vallcy-t.oihs zoo feet Deeper
The Flood.
job Moses was cttihtry hoy, born so,nr-
where NJ about Leroy; " V, who drif'rl
into Rochester. while still in his teens, q,
make his fortune In sSt;,, he hal made il.
and u !ds ,ltr, ont OF imtcnt pill that ho or
sonc ln'c :"iss hul invented About t.i'it timt
O! Greek |ths in its glory, and the news:
papers tccrh4f with hf",'uiitS Of tho fortunes
tHlm made out Of oil. The stories Efed the
imagination Of thu Rochester pill man, and
hr determined to try Ills lland at che new
source of |tcilth
pin tho northern part OF McI.un "o'intv!
tliA, state, did the southern part Of 'attaran:
sus county; n. y, lies IL valley which WAS
then and Is ec, one OF the %i'lrst and most
fpr>alcn scrtimi, Of rountr. tn ,l,c found e,,st
of the Mississippi, Through tE,| -nllcy, then
gitcn lpto lumh"r'n: Charles Mino.. who
us.Sl to conduct the Erie road sop,ctircs for
profit but mostly 81, pleasure and glory hal
for some reason huii' 4 branch ROAD which
r,n tllrfd;h Bratlfnr'l--whi,h t!r, tou>trt
three houses. n hIa''hsnih shop, II school
house and tavrrl,--and terminated at ti-
little lul.;l"r camp " fiilr,vile.
job Moses looked over thn field, studied tho
MAPS and finally made up his inhi TINT the
VALLEY through which Aiinun's little railroad
rnll wA, iilnlrrlaii with ul,' vast Se, of oil.
As time passed un he lrrnnm ns certain A.
fate that his conclusions %hlr right Ono
day he showed up in Bradford, leased >a,mc
Thousands of arr~ md soon lu.i we'll under
way. The simple minded natives. who hal
thought him eccentric from hr first sct him
down n. Mnatir when H. told theiti TINT
the earnings of the ruilrtiil which rnr, past
their door woDltt srnli BE increased twenty
fold. aud ,o this opinion they clung fut many
q long year
f,'siIst fHE bHI!.l
When Moses legul pushing the drill iii Nc
valley many Of the oil kings Of to-day We're
unknown and ,iiihrai-' of, John u. Kocku-
frllrr, Oliver ii. Payne and l;ill Thompson
had not yet nlntur"d their plans. Dan OI,ay
and H. l.. Taylor would have locked upon
l,WM ms u fortune Peter Grace and Capt.
J. j. EamdrrSrift had not tt' -"ltrlm'l from
the war. Col. Dyer was Il farnt .!t4Hn in
Maine. The Mobiles, now the Standard On
c,''',rhny Of Russia, were making, barrels in
I'ltt>busp. Nm and Ike Wits :!h!t cutting
loss up IL hll"ganv county, allA ','harIcy
Young wnS 'fnrEli,Y i,t them Mt e4f month.
Tho Fishers md Phillips hn,' thcii fort tines to
maxi thil,' 'Jnc 'rnig was lot yet ont Of til"
primer, and John Mckcown was still dress
Ing too along tine creek
For twelve years job Moses, with ,lo~gci
resolution. sunk hole after hole in his leases,
but with no show IT oil Then he woke up
on" morning /" find that the thousands H..
had made out If pills l." nocl"st.' hat ynr
i,hrd into th" 'uLs M i;ad 't'r punching
in tn" woods and field r!""t bradford. and
that h" va, Il poor man, Disappointed, hM'
not discouraged, he went to New Work. and
with an rl"qnre born " hntrn-tn,S- size
c.rlrd in obtaining from the Capitalists who
gave him n hearing .il'',i'ti eth whicn ~
coninuc hi, search. This was in 1877 Once
back on his field Of operations u new idea
struck him. Up to that time he had drilled
nll Of his wells only MU feet deep, the hor-
ia'n at which r'l ."nS found along the creek.
Perhaps there might i~ II producing S',nu
stu flrth"r down. He sunk one of bis wells
900 ftt deeper, and was rewarded with u
fifty bnri'i tt"'lcci AnNtNrr aud another
told the ,aInc d Il '4tt,'r stlrv, Moses hai
found the oil field fol Hhirh he lad 50 long
been .carrl''.r";s Every well he sunk gave
him rich rr,iil" r.it flaws of hi. success
spread abroad nlm the tide of odom turned
slowly toward ljrmlfnl,i. y year later it had
increased to a flood, ami tn" fai. was frcrly
admitted THAT nd such field had ever been
struck before; Lands wll'rhtro years lcf're
had been almost Worthless solh for NOR" than
u princes ransom. But Moses had it all uni
der lease and was able to make his own
terms His thirteen years Of waiting nrttcl
him millions. He lives in New York n6h,
cnjh's life, and always has n span" $50 tolHan
to amy Of 'hr h',7 who happen to get brokuin
.hc metropolis Philadelphia Times.